Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-01-08
NEBRASKA.

NeDTdsha lily Is troubled with poor gas.
Barley mas decided to issue bridge bonds.
Columbus has organized a board of trade.
A wildcat colony has settled near Wisner.
A new Lutheran church will be erected at
Deshler.
Wildcats are numerous in the vicinity OF
Wisner.
The Oakdalc Express has a new dress and
no patents.
Holdredge is figuring on a new system OF
water-works.
Holt county has got a new postoHice
named Cairo.
James Davis, Of Geneva, lost a finger in a
corn shelter.
Tho merchants of Aurora have organized a
board Of trade.
Large quantities Of corn are yet ungathered
In Dakota county.
Salem offers a water power to any one who
viii erect a flour MILL
Large quantities Of corn are yet ungather-
ed in Dakota county
Auburn caught a sixteen inch vein Of coal
in her Christmas stocking.
A Missouri River Bridge company has been
established at Ponca.
Masonic lodges are to be established at
Mason and Litchfeld.
Loup city's building record for The year
foots up sl17, l45.
The Oakland Independent nov sports a
complete dress OF !homesppn."
Among Custer %county's immediate needs
are an oil and paper mill.
A $4,000 bridge is being built across the
Platte river at Overton.
A jewelry swiudler raked in several dollars
IN Dixon county recently.
The business men Of Columbus organized a
board of trade Dee. 20.
y Harlan county man Is living in a sod
house that cost him 81, 500.
A Catholic convent is to be established at
McCook In the rear future.
Aurora people are enthusiastic over the
prospects OF a new railroad.
A new Organization of the Sens Of Veter.
ans will be formed in Exeter.
The Pierce opera house Is being enlarged
with & twenty-foot extension.
Eastern capitalists are looking around Blair
for a site for d linsced oil mill.
Adams county's apportionnent Of the state
school fund amounts to 81, 1884.
Grafton had a Christmas tree for the benefit
Of the poor children Of the town.
Central City will improve hur water works
TO the extent Of $1,000 next spring.
Hastings boasts that there is no city twice
its size that has any finer than it has.
Dec. 81 the special postal service will be dis
continued TO Huxley, on route 34,3S1.
The recent census taken Of Wayne shows
that village to contain / 900 inhabitants.
The postofice at Daley, Lincoln county,
has been discontinued. Mail goes to Silas.
Thieves entered the postoilice at Dunbar Il
few nights ago, but secured nothing Of value.
The belief Is growing in Beatrice that Pad
dock is IA candidate for United States SEN
altar.
Many Nebraska towns are talking Of put
ting in water works and electric light next
spring.
Frank Miller was killed in a well near Curtis
recently. A bucket Of earth fell and crushed
his skull.
Broken Bow has been made a third class
postoffice and the postmaster's salary fixed at
1900.
Harvard has neither saloons nor billiard
halls. The town board won't be Influenced
that way.
The members or the Nebraska Press asso-
citation viii meet in Omaha on the Goth Of De
cember
lance prvnn. N pnn,n ~ 10 ar,,o urne
kicked by a mule last week and got a broken
leg and arm.
The Elkhorn Valley road has raised the
rate on hogs from Wahoo to Omaha from SIS
to s12 per ear.
The young tow OF Clearwater, Antelope
county, for 1886, foots up sl5,275 invested In
improvements.
Plainview wants more houses. Families
there are boarding in hotels for lack Of suit
able dwellings.
Neigh improvements for 1856 amounted to
s4S, $50, being an increase of Sill, 800 over the
previous year.
The school children OF Wahoo donated
eleven b ,rrels of good things as a Christmas
Offering to the poor.
The Norfolk bank has been changed to a
state bank, and In future be known as the
Norfolk state bank.
A farmer living near Mead froze his feet so
badly during the late storm that they will
have to be amputated.
Mrs. Parsons, wife Of the Chicago anarchist,
was rendered 4 ball and reception at Omaha
on Christmas night.
The residence Of II. NJ. Rice, OF Lincoln,
was destroyed on the 25th inst. by fire. Loss,
$500; insurance, 1920.
Editer Marvin. OF the Beatrice Democrat, is
enjoying the luxurious ease of a patent rocker
the gift Of his employees.
A town is being plated at the junction Of
the Missouri. and Union Pacific, two miles
west of Pappillion. 1t is dubbed Hoxie.
Grand.island stands a good show of secur-
ing a glucose, sugar and starch factory, to cost
800, 600 and To employ $50 hands.
The Clarkson prize of $50 for the best five
acres of corn raised In Cheyenne county, has
been divided between Peter Bowser and Vim
IIappin,
The Nebraska City sausage factory Is said
to be the largest and best in the world. Fiji
teen to twenty thousand pounds OF hog are
stuffed every day.
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